ILX is pretty much my only long-term online "hang" where I wisely opted to use a Gmail rather than Hotmail email address. All of my Hotmails are long gone from underuse and I've forgotten most of my old passwords. I'll never be able to change the song on my MySpace front page again (RIP).
― The Final Meltdown (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 September 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
the fanmail thing is bizarre. i probably get like 3-4 'fan letters' from lurkers a month. i assume this is normal for most active posters?
― Mordy, Monday, September 29, 2014 7:35 PM (19 minutes ago)
i would imagine that it is not
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
active but it's my yahoo which I only check about once every two weeks
would change to my gmail if i could
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
lol @ fanmail
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, September 29, 2014 3:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
lol waht
mine will become inactive soon
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
I've gotten what I guess you could call "fan mail" before but it's not a regular thing and a couple times it's been sorta creepy. This is like ~ 5x total in 9 (kill me) years though. Mordy - you really get emails from lurkers multiple times a month???
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
well sometimes it's long nasty screeds but those are mostly from regulars lol
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
i must know more about this, in another thread if necessary obv
like idk maybe three or four ilxors have ever emailed me
obv fb chat does not count
and it was usually to ask partic questions in relation to a current topic
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Mine is a dead one - is it easy to change?
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
just ilx messaged darraghmac a fan email
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
The only ilx mail I've ever received has been poll related or mod related. Early on as an ilxor, I sent someone an email to make a private aside about one of his posts and he seemed confused that I was reaching out like that.
― how's life, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
xp aw <3
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
in your convo with Mordy, you can now say things like "well when I receive fanmail", etc.
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Fan mail? Lol no.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
like mordy i only get a few lines of fanmail a month. at first i was weirded out too but now i've accepted it and i am grateful for the support :)
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
"long time lurker, first time fan mailer here..."
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
you should see the glowing missives i receive from paul edward wagemann on the regular
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
yes, one of my main email addresses.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
paul edward wagemann is a fun search
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
i checked my ilx email address a few months back and found some ilxmail from 2007
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
but nothing since then, i suppose the dozens of fan mail messages have gone into the spam folder
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
mine died with paper thin walls
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
fan mail overload regularly crashes our mailserver, plz can you turn it down a notch guys? thx xxx
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Oh god, I never get direct messages here but I just thought to check the spam-choked email associated with my previous login and there's ILX mail from four years ago I never saw.
― The Final Meltdown (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
I've had ilx mail go to the spam folder before. Also I just want to be clear that I was not claiming to get fanmail upthread. I've just gotten a couple of unsolicited and somewhat - how you say politely - "strange" msgs over the years.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
did u ever get a mail from that dude that like compiles his favorite posts of yrs and just sends a long email w/ all of them? creepy, but kinda endearing imo.
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
wait what
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
no!
scared 4 u
subject line was 'greatest hits' so i was flattered
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
"I've just gotten a couple of unsolicited and somewhat - how you say politely - "strange" msgs over the years.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB)"
poll
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
was it anonymous?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
Did you ever get mail from the one guy who cuts and pastes all of your WDYLL photos into a collage except with like naked bodies under your head? Terrifying but p dope Photoshop skills.
― The Final Meltdown (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
ok that sounds legit terrifying ^
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
mordy are your fans MRAs?
― example (crüt), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
lol dying at OL's post
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
i feel like TRU KULT MRAs would not find my ilx shtick amusing at all
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
This fan mail thing is bizarre.
Mordy, are you sure you're not sending yourself messages when you're high?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha omg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
stop being funny ppl i need to leave and i just keep refreshing
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
dear mordy, this weed you smoked is really excellent. great choice. yours truly, mordy.
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
my inbox is probably bursting with fanmail and i'll never know
― example (crüt), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Mine's a Hotmail address which probably tells you all you need to know. Yes, I rarely look at it and it's spam-infested. Although my main current address is also on Microsoft's newer Outlook webmail, as I remain perplexed at the popularity of unintuitive-as-all-getout Gmail.
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:34 (10 minutes ago)
wtf now I feel legit snubbed
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
xpost Well, they don't throw out years' worth of correspondence if you forget to login every 30 days, for a start. Hotmail was ultimately just a digital shredder of my late '90s/early '00s online existence.
― The Final Meltdown (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
why would you have the account if you don't use it for 30 days? what if your shipwrecked uncle emailed you there?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
i use a hotmail under a fake name which i can't get into because i refuse to give them my cell phone #
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
check my ilx email sporadically but not that often. tempted to start sending fan mail.
― ogmor, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
none of martin jols family have been in touch fyi
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
my addy still works but i only check that account like once every 2-3 weeks
― syro gyra (get bent), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
dying @ mordy reveal
sad that ppl have to resort to burners to avoid hate mail
I received an email from dmac telling me to lighten up
and an email from clouds asking for a link to a flac of an album by a band
that is it
― Onan Pullett (wins), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
didnt I sent u others subsequent? will rectify
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
Oh no we had a nice convo
I think I agreed to be more glib in future
― Onan Pullett (wins), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
I got fan mail as a result of this thread. :)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
:)
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
reporting back to say i logged into my coupons-'n-promos account to set up an ilx forwarding filter, promptly got distracted by a GOG.com sale email, and now i own the deluxe edition of rollercoaster tycoon.
― compassionate sports, electronic father (reddening), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
legit lols and legit <3 from my items of fan mail since I last posted
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 07:03 (nine years ago) link
Thread reminded me to check where my ILXmail actually goes, and eventually I remembered it goes to an address I hadn't checked for a while, which turned out to have a full mailbox and probably have been rejecting emails for an unknown period because of it
think it still works now I've deleted a billion "special offers! this weekend only!" emails from many weekends ago tho
so I probably ought to tick "never look at it" but my head is now full of good intentions to check it more often and I think I'll let this delusion nudge my vote up to "may take a while" (though tbh if I don't see a non-promotional email within a week of it arriving it will be lost forever among the Amazon and Sainsbury's and That One Gift Tat Shop You Used Nine Christmases Ago Who Email You About New Products Every Day etc)
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 11:01 (nine years ago) link
didn't know i had an ilx email address?
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
am i missing out on lots of mail from my fans?
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
at the risk of causing dreadful embarrassment, can i just say that if i were the fanmail sort, i would def send fanmail to a passing spacecadet
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 11:23 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 5 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
System has such a lackluster personality. maybe it should be programmed to generate and send fanmail to ilxors
― Aimless, Sunday, 5 October 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
i only check my 77 board private deluxe address
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 5 October 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 6 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Based on the response, the great majority of ilx emails remain valid, but the majority of these are rarely or never examined. Those who, like me, have dead addresses which cannot be updated make up about 20% of ilxors.
My conclusion: if you try to send a personal email message via ilx, the odds are 2-1 against it being seen in a timely way. With odds like that, the failure rate will probably result in very few attempts to use that feature.
― Aimless, Monday, 6 October 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
My ILX login email address is long dead and gone. I've never understood why there's no option to change it, I wouldn't think that'd be too hard to code?
― Tuomas, Monday, 6 October 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link
what problems do u foresee
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 6 October 2014 09:28 (nine years ago) link
Tuomas' fan mail landing in the ethereal dead letter office
― Aimless, Monday, 6 October 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
ok i just got an email from someone called Creames Fartpoop lol
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Well, now I just feel bad for luring you into saying your addy works.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Missed this but would have voted "No, it is dead and gone" - would like to see the hypothetical feature happen someday.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Wow. Creames Fartpoop barely posts at all compared to how often I think about their username.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah I forgot creames fartpoop is the other poster who has emailed me
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
it was after I had posted this
do people have like spreadsheets of their favorite ilx posters. my thursday night prayer group will remember you to the Lord if you do, just let me know
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, May 9, 2013 2:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not a spreadsheet so much as I wrote "creames fartpoop" on the back of a receipt that I keep in my wallet
― Moldy ★☆☆☆☆ (wins), Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:21 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
mine's an AOL address that I registered when I was a kid in 1998. I logged into it for the first time in ≈ 4 months and was greeted by an enthusiastic WELCOME TO AOL popup; all of my contacts and messages (probably just spam and ox gallstones...) have been purged, but I guess I reactivated it logging back in, so I'm now free to receive webmails I might not ever read.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
came here to crack joeks, but now I want to nominate
I am very particular about how I answer polls and these choices displease me.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
For ILM at least, lolz.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 04:35 (eight years ago) link